We’ve posted a sample chapter for Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM. The PDF file is protected so you won’t be able to copy anything from it. But don’t worry. Once the book ships a zip file of all…
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You would think that by now Windows and Windows applications would be much better about cleaning up temporary files. But no. It is amazing how many files I still see in my %TEMP% directory. I’ve always operated under the assumption…
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If you’ve been trying out the Get-Packet script you’ve seen that there is a great deal of information. I wanted an easy way to analyze the data so I put together a script called Analyze-Packet that will slice and dice…
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I finally finished the last of the tech editing for my new book. The material is now off for copy editing, indexing and publication. Want to know what I’ve been working on? Here’s a cover blurb:
So you’ve got Active…
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A few days ago I blogged about packet sniffer PowerShell script. Needless to say I was intrigued and spent some time dissecting to better understand it. Don’t worry, no PowerShell scripts were harmed during this operation. This is a nifty…
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Powershell does not require you to declare variables. For a shell, that makes perfect sense because that would create too much overhead for simple one-off tasks.
However, as soon as you start to develop more complex scripts, it is very…
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I came across a wicked PowerShell script (Trends in Technology: Powershell: IP Packet Sniffer Script ) that is essentially a PowerShell packet sniffer. How cool is that! It certainly won’t replace full blown sniffers like WireShark but I love having…
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If you’ve been to any of my PowerShell sessions or classes you know I often recommend using an AllSigned execution policy for your production servers. Assuming you’ve gone ahead and installed a code signing certificate on your desktop, how do…
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PrimalScript 2007 Build 567 has been released. Please log on to http://my.sapien.com to get the latest download and try the new PowerShell debugger.
To learn more about this service release, please have a look at our service bulletin at
http://support.sapien.com/bulletins/SB567.pdf…
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I saw that Kirk Munro called me out on on Steven Muraski’s Scripting/SysAdmin meme . Here’s my contribution to the meme.
How old were you when you started using computers?
I probably didn’t start using computers until late in college…
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